Chapter 2: Two years ago

With a sparse light rain falling in the sky, I stepped out of the gate of the military region with my bags on my back, and exhaled a long breath from the bottom of my heart in front of me in front of me, but I was still nervous.

A month ago, I called my dad and said that I was going to do it, and my dad was very happy on the phone, but a month later, I was discharged from the army because of violating discipline, and I changed from a cultural soldier to a compulsory soldier. Is this really my fault? Because of a discord on the court, I got into a fight with the company commander, and the company commander went to the hospital, and I was discharged, maybe it wasn't my fault, but fate.

Others retired from the army and wore military uniforms and returned to their hometown in glorious military trains, but I had to change into the ** silk dress of the university, and wore a T-shirt printed with my big face and got on the bus to Beijing.

After a few hours of driving, I had mixed feelings in my heart, and I really didn't know how to face my dad when I went back. Dad is a very kind father, but also very hard, he gave birth to me at the age of forty, can be said to be a good child, but unfortunately, when I was eight years old, my mother because of busy business, resolutely divorced my father, since then I have never seen my mother, just received her child support to me on a monthly basis, so deep down, the father who grew up with me is a great father, I don't know how he will react when I stand in front of him in this capacity.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, I stood in the corridor in front of my house and wandered back and forth, wanting to push the door impulsively and hug my father to be coquettish, but I didn't know how to face him, and the contradiction in my heart was beyond words.

Eventually, I mustered up the courage to open the door and call out to my father, but no one responded, the house was deserted, and a house without a woman was like that.

When my dad wasn't home, I let out a long breath, lay on the couch and turned on the TV, bored with the channel, and began to think about how to lie to my dad. Touching the dust on the remote control, I couldn't help but wonder, Daddy hasn't been home for a few days? It seems that it is time to find him a wife. I smiled secretly and got up to clean up the room.

I went to the market to buy some vegetables and two bottles of Erguotou, intending to make a hearty dinner to make amends to my father.

After the meal was ready, it was nine o'clock, and my father still didn't come back, I said what the hell, could it be that the old man went on a date with his girlfriend? It's enough to think about Daddy's old-fashioned temperament. I had no choice but to call him, but the other party turned off the phone.

As soon as I saw that this table of dishes could not be wasted, I suddenly remembered a person, my little thunder, this guy grew up with me wearing a pair of pants, and the relationship is not good, he also served as a soldier with me, but he was a compulsory soldier, and he retired earlier than me, and I haven't seen him for a long time after thinking about it, and I just happened to be wronged and no one said, so I called him.

As soon as this guy heard that I was cooking and inviting him to dinner, he was so happy that he hurried over within half an hour of hanging up the phone.

I said that you came so actively, did you come for the wine or for me? Lei Zi laughed: "Of course I'm here for my brother, am I so unkind?" ”

When my brother saw him, he was very happy, and when he was drinking, he immediately jumped up when he heard that I had been discharged from the army: "Oh, why do you say retirement?" The great masses of the people are still waiting for you to defend your home and country. ”

I took a sip of wine and said, "Don't talk nonsense, can you change your poor mouth?" Lao Tzu is depressed now, can't you stop mentioning this stubble? ”

Lei Zi took a sip with me, and smiled: "Cheng, hey, I said I care, or you should do insurance with your buddies, you can't protect your family and defend the country, it's always okay to protect the physical and mental health of the people, right?" ”

"Come on." I said: "Dude, how can you have your Lei Ye's mouth, let's not say that you do insurance, you just go to the overpass to tell fortunes, you can make a fortune, we are stupid, so we won't join you in the fun." ”

This one was drunk in the dark, and the two bottles of two pots went down all down, and my father never came back, and as soon as the wine came up, I forgot about it.

I waited for two days, and my dad still didn't come back, and the phone was still turned off, so I wondered, thinking what happened to this old man? It stands to reason that it's time for me to call him every month, why does it always turn off?

Thinking about it, I was busy taking a taxi to Xizhimen, and my dad opened a small restaurant over there, and he couldn't say that he was busy living in the restaurant these days.

When I arrived at the door of the restaurant, I saw that it was broken, the door was locked, and there was a sign outside the door that said it was closed today, and I saw that the date was half a month ago, which means that the restaurant has been closed for half a month. I was shocked, it shouldn't be something in the restaurant stall after being closed for so long, right? Thinking that I hurriedly ran home, and asked the neighbor if he knew where my dad went, the neighbor said that a police officer came to look for him half a month ago, but he didn't find it, and we haven't paid attention to it, it seems that your dad hasn't entered the house for a while.

Hearing this, I faintly felt a sense of foreboding, something must have happened! With a worried heart, I am a little overwhelmed, the key is that I can't contact my father now, and I don't have any relatives, so this matter is difficult to do. The worst thing is that I have a few hundred dollars in my pocket, and I have tossed it all in the past two days.

When I got home, I began to rummage through the boxes, and turned over the places where I hid the New Year's money when I was a child, and finally made up 500 yuan, thinking that this is not enough, it is not good to ask someone, Dad, this should be missing, I think I will simply call the police. But I can't think about it, since the restaurant is closed, and the police have looked for my dad again, if I can't get it, there is an accident in the restaurant, and my dad absconded in fear of crime.

Running into my father's bedroom, I flipped it up again, and I had the impression that my father was a master who liked to hide private money, and I might be able to pick it up. Aimlessly looking for a long time, except for the dozens of dollars under the mattress nothing, and finally I found that the floor under the bed was warped up a crack, probably due to the deformation of the damp, take a flashlight, but see the black hole in the gap, it seems that there is no space, knocked it is really, immediately without saying a word, find a kitchen knife to pry up the floor, and see a shoe box-sized iron box under the floor.

I couldn't suppress the apprehension in my heart, so I pulled out the tin box and started very lightly, I guess it wasn't any money or anything like that.

The tin box is not locked, in fact, it doesn't matter if this kind of thing is not locked, even if it is locked, it is a hammer to be stolen by others, if it is not locked, it is safer if it is valuables.

I swallowed my saliva and slowly opened the tin box, which was an old envelope that was damp, the envelope was very thick, and it was a bit heavy to pick up, and my first impression was RMB. When I opened it, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and there was a thick stack of photos inside.

The photo should have been taken at night, and you can see the picture of the flash lighting on it that is very abnormal.

The first photo is taken at an intersection, a red Santana was blocked in the middle of the intersection by four white gold cups, from the perspective of the shooting, this photo should be taken by the electronic eye of the intersection, the time shown on it is 2003/09/05/01:36, it seems that it was the second half of the night, no wonder there are no passing vehicles at the intersection.

The second photo is still the same picture, it may have been taken continuously, the difference is that there are many people coming down from the four Jinbei cars, all in black suits, but I don't know why, all the faces of those people are mosaic, I wonder a little, how can the photos taken by electronic eyes be processed?

In the third photo, the man in black surrounded the Santana, the door was open, and a person poked out inside, I fixed my eyes on the person, and my heart was shocked, and I secretly screamed: "Daddy! "What's going on? Did he get into trouble with the underworld?

I couldn't wait to flip through several pictures in a row, and the picture of the fifth one was very chaotic, and my dad actually clashed with those men in black and fought! My heart tugged at once, how could my father, who is usually honest, do it with so many people? He's the age of going head-to-head with so many people, that's not

I didn't dare to think about it anymore, and I didn't dare to continue to look down, I was afraid of seeing a scene that I couldn't accept. On the other hand, it should be fine, because the photo shows 2003, and now it's 2010, and my dad was on the phone with me last month, and he must have escaped that catastrophe.

Unable to suppress my curiosity, I continued to flip through it, and as a result, a scene shocked me. Since the photos are taken continuously, their movements are quite coherent, and the whole group fight is like an action movie tidbit, which makes people's blood boil.

In the last photo, Dad looked in the direction of the camera, covered in blood, running wildly, and the man in black was lying on the ground scattered.

I closed my eyes, my head buzzing, this is so unrealistic, how can a person at my father's age, who usually doesn't even dare to provoke selling mutton skewers on the street, form a bond with the underworld? What's even more bizarre is that Daddy actually knocked down dozens of thugs with his bare hands! God, this fucking dad turned to the showbiz, right? Are these photos the tidbits of his films?

Thinking about it, I looked at the last photo again, and this time I looked carefully, and I suddenly found that my father's shirt was torn off, and there was a tiger tattoo on his chest with teeth and claws!

I laughed when I saw this, and immediately concluded that my dad must be making a movie, because I have lived with him for more than 20 years and have never seen him have such a cool tattoo on his body. Yes, especially at his age, how could he defeat so many people with his bare hands, it's outrageous. Although the angle from which the photo was taken was a little suspicious, I think it may have been a special need for the shooting.

Thinking of this, I breathed a sigh of relief, sorted out the photos and put them back in the tin box, but I found that something seemed wrong, this tin box seemed to be a bit of a doorway, because its depth was completely disproportionate to its thickness, I knocked on the bottom, making a hollow sound, and there was a dark grid underneath!

Suddenly a strange feeling came to my heart, I picked up the kitchen knife and pried, sure enough, I found that there was really a dark compartment inside, and then pried hard, the things inside were pried out with a click, I "ah" an exclamation, my hands trembled, and immediately threw the iron box out, and the contents rolled down to the corner, it turned out to be a bloodstained human hand!